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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Electric Messages: Then and Now

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson investigates electronic communication from the Morse Code system to text messaging. To learn about this, students construct simple circuits, send messages to each other, and explore the history and impact of communication.
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Activity
Maryland Science Center

Maryland Science Center: Diy Telegraph [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
Instructions for how to build a telegraph device for sending a message in Morse code.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Telegraph

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore the concept of Morse Code and how signals are transferred over great distances by using telegraph machines based on electromagnets using our interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a video...
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Institution Forgotten History: Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse

For Students 9th - 10th
Sample of early Morse Code, sent by Alfred Vail to Samuel Morse
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Samuel Finley Breese Morse

For Students 9th - 10th
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 - April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse Code.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Samuel Morse

For Students 9th - 10th
(1791-1872) American inventor of the Morse code.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Samuel Morse

For Students 9th - 10th
(1791-1872) Inventor of the Morse Code and a painter.
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Institution Forgotten History: Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse

For Students 9th - 10th
Drawing of the Electromagnetic Telegraph and the Alpha Code, by Alfred Vail.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Wake Up, America: Industrial Revolution in America [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that looks at the technological advances of early nineteenth-century America and the birth of the Industrial Revolution in America.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Inventors and Inventions

For Students 5th - 8th
The industrial revolution in America spawned the inventions of many inventors, who improved technology in many different areas. See how transportation, agriculture, and communications were transformed because of these inventions.
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Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 1393: Inventing the Telegraph

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the history of the telegraph in this article, which is a transcript of a radio broadcast.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: A Historic Message

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by the Library of Congress, gives information on the first telegraph invented and the first message ever transmitted.
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Website
South Carolina Educational Television

Kids Work!: History of Telecommunications

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at inventions and developments that had an impact on telecommunication.
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Website
Historica Canada

History by the Minute: Marconi

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a video series, this clip profiles Marconi who made possible the first wireless message transmitted from England to Cabot Tower, Newfoundland. Learn more about this innovative man and his even more amazing achievement. Links to...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Communicating With Light: People

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Who uses light to communicate? Go from sea to shining sea as we visit a lighthouse, board a Navy ship, and take a stroll on the red carpet! Students will investigate different ways of communicating with light and at the end of the lesson...
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Website
Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: The Second Industrial Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the achievements that occurred during the second Industrial Revolution are found on this site. It includes information on gas and electric power, communications, public transportation, the motor and flight industries, and...
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: Lincoln's High Tech War

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the weaponry used during the Civil War, and some of the innovative technology that the Union's military forces employed. These included the minie ball, rifles, underwater torpedoes, the use of hot air balloons, and improved...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ernst Siemens

For Students 9th - 10th
The inventor of the telegraph that used a needle to point to the right letter instead of using Morse code.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science: Uses of Electricity

For Students 1st - 9th
Kid's learn about the uses electricity. Where is it used and how does it help us in our daily lives.

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